Microorganisms as turbo recyclers, mussels as innovation models or artificial muscles as actuators: Driven by a pioneering spirit, biotechnology is gearing up for the battle against climate change.

Ecological retirement – what happens to old batteries of electric vehicles or decommissioned wind turbines and solar energy systems?

Billions of plants for millions of jobs: The Great Green Wall across the continent is the world’s largest landscape restoration project.

Digital transformation is changing the world of construction and helps save time, costs and natural resources. Much of this is still a vision, but is an all-new world of construction in store for us?

Inconspicuous plants with natural superpowers might soon help us stop famines, the destructive overexploitation of raw materials or climate change. Here are five examples.

The term planned city describes the phenomenon of building a city from scratch. Eight examples illustrate why planned cities entail risks and why we need them anyway.